Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 12, 2024

Mind your own business, little old lady.

I got a John Deere letter; the wife ran off with my lawnmower. Something about “good vibrations” . . .

Except that the other comic strips aren’t hiring, Rat.

John, a precocious deer got a job driving a demor farm tractor. He was deer John, a John Deere John Deere driver.

Yes, Rat, but where else would you work? You are a good problem causer, as you said, but every other comic strip already has one, and there wouldn’t be room for a second one.

I think your departure depends more on the wishes of the man with the pen and Ink

Send him to Get Fuzzy for a few days

Pig’s letter:

Dear John Pig,

We are a pig and a deer, and were not meant to be together. I like to make dough, you make puns on the john. This is good-bye.

Deere Jonns Deer.

Farmer’s wife: “John Deere – who is Allis Chalmers ?”

Surprised he didn’t read it while eating venison. Pastis must be loosing it.

Oh deere.

At least the letter is probably “green”!

You’ll pay dearly for this.

The paper the letter was written on originally did not move – it was stationary stationery. [When it was sent it became moving stationery.]

Esp. since Pastis is ripping off Gary Larson [The Far Side] here.

Sniff it to see if she was in the John when she wrote it.

nothing runs like a Deere

Stephen, I have been waiting for this comic for a long time.

Depicting grandmothers in taffeta dresses needs to go the way of the dodo bird. Unless that’s supposed to be Pig’s great-great-great grandmother.

I should have seen that coming in the first of the strip.

I think Rat has a good Case to break up.

Really, Rat? Do you really think another comic strip will hire you?

I like the touch with the old lady and her use of “dear”.

Oh, in your letter, you said you didn’t love me

You said you’re gonna leave me

But you could’ve said it better

Oh-ooh-oh, in your letter, you said you couldn’t face me

You said you could replace me

But you could’ve said it better

In Your Letter, REO Speedwagon

Yeah, good luck with that, Rat.

Is it from an old girlfriend named Alice Chalmers?

In John Deere green

You can’t leave the comic strip, Rat. Stephan literally controls your entire existence.

What did the plow say to the tractor?

Pull me closer, John Deere!

I would like to stay forever connected to this strip.

♪♫ "Oh Deere, what can the matter be?

Deere Deere, what can the matter be?

Oh Deere, what can the matter be?…" ♫♪

It’s always the tractor factor that causes relationship breakdowns.

I believe that was Brian Wilson and he had a woody she liked to ride!

This Pastis guy is alright!

Little known fact: if your John Deere doesn’t have doors and air conditioning, it was made in China. They don’t make lawn mowers. They just make farm equipment.

Pig you are not allowed to leave Deere :)

You’re in luck, Rat! For Better or For Worse is about to have an opening. . . .

Where would Rat go? It’s like committing suicide.

Break up ? Oh Deere

I agree. Rat deserves something better.

this is one of those times we all would Rat.

I just got a John Deere letter; It’s time to renew my warranty.

Rat don’t leave, Pearls is a train wreck, you just have to watch!

A John Deere Dear John letter could cue “A Dear John Letter” sung by Jean Shepard and Ferlin Husky ♫ Dear John, oh, how I hate to write Dear John, I must let you know tonight That my love for you has died away like grass upon the lawn … ♫

As some have been known to say in farm country, “Nothing runs like a Deere, or smells like a John!”

Hey, Pastis! Have some Pastis. :D Hiccup

OK, dear-ly beloved.

Well, at least he left Caterpillars out of it…..

The reason I have Case and Kubota tractors. No Dear John letters of not working.

He was disappointed the Letter didn’t mention taking an airplane, he ain’t got no time for a fast train

oh dear

How did pig ever a tractor in the first place?

Stephan, Stephan — ROFLMAO

kind of a cool tongue twister if nothing else

A pun you can set to music.

Where will Rat go, or who’d invite Rat in?

A John Deere Dear John to read on the john, dear.

amazing

John Deere ran off and married Allis Chalmers. They had a little baby and named him Oliver.(Only farmers will get this joke.)